Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Feb 18, 2021
Sustainable planning of waste management is contingent on reliable data on waste characteristics and their variation across the seasons owing to the consequential environmental impact of such variation. Traditional waste characterization techniques i...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Jan 17, 2021
Municipal solid waste (MSW) must be managed to reduce its impact on environmental matrices and population health as much as possible. In particular, the variables that influence the production, separate waste collection, and costs of MSW must be unde...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Jan 6, 2021
Rapid population growth integrated with poor governance and urban planning is highly challenging resulting key for the selection of unsuitable landfill sites, particularly in developing counties. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Sep 24, 2020
Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been employed to predict construction and demolition (C&D) waste generation. However, most studies have used machine learning models with continuous data input variables, applying algorithms, s...
Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Jun 25, 2020
Reliable prediction of municipal solid waste (MSW) generation rates is a significant element of planning and implementation of sustainable solid waste management strategies. In this study, the multi-layer perceptron artificial neural network (MLP-ANN...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Nov 27, 2018
Efficient and effective solid waste management requires sufficient ability to predict the operational capacity of a system correctly. Waste prediction models have been widely studied and these models are always being challenged to perform more accura...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Apr 10, 2017
The heating values, particularly lower heating values of burning municipal solid waste are critically important parameters in operating circulating fluidized bed incineration systems. However, the heating values change widely and frequently, while th...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Jan 18, 2017
Due to the existence of complexities of heterogeneities, hierarchy, discreteness, and interactions in municipal solid waste management (MSWM) systems such as Beijing, China, a series of socio-economic and eco-environmental problems may emerge or wors...
Environmental science and pollution research international
Oct 7, 2016
This paper presents the development of a general regression neural network (GRNN) model for the prediction of annual municipal solid waste (MSW) generation at the national level for 44 countries of different size, population and economic development ...
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
Jun 11, 2016
Municipal solid waste (MSW) management is a major concern to local governments to protect human health, the environment and to preserve natural resources. The design and operation of an effective MSW management system requires accurate estimation of ...